Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:09:34 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: jason@dictos.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Searching contents of files Message-ID: <3F962D2E.8080902@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200310211158.11136.jason@dictos.com> References: <200310211158.11136.jason@dictos.com>
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jason dictos wrote: >Hi All, > > I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for >files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't >always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error >"Argument list too long"). > >Is there a more effective way to search the contents of files? > >Thanks, >-Jason > > $grep -r text * Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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